Turkey Day

While the girls and I were home getting the food ready and waiting for Grammy and Grandpa's arrival...Here's where Ben started his Thanksgiving day.  More treatment...

Still looks like the game this weekend is a no-go, but possibly next week?  We didn't take any pictures of Thanksgiving...BAD!  The girls had a surprise visit from their friends Elle and Lucy on Friday though.  They were super happy about that!

Reading

New books from the library make this girl happy!  And focused!

Gobble Gobble

The 1st grade Turkey Day performance!  Whitney was so excited for this big day!  And excited Grandma and Grandpa were there to see it!  Sweet girl wanted to be the turkey "soooo bad", but she wasn't picked.  The music teacher had them all practice their best turkey moves in class and she selected the winner.  We were so proud of her though, when she told me that she didn't get it, she said she was a little sad, but that she was happy for the girl that did get it.  And she laughed and giggled when it was that other little girl's turn to show off her best turkey moves during the program.

After the program, we went back to her room for a feast and a special reading of "Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving." 

San Fran

Well, remember that big game against San Francisco?  Well, we won!!!  Huge win!  Bad news is, Ben sprained his MCL that game.  He texted me at half time saying that he had hurt it, but that he was going to try to finish the game.  He did, which was great, but an MRI the next day confirmed the sprain and he's been hitting the treatment hard and heavy.  He even did something called a PRP (platelet rich plasma) injection.  They took his blood, spun it to separate the layers and injected the platelet layer into his knee to promote faster healing.  He has seen progress, but unfortunately he's missed the last two games and most likely this weekends too.  Slow and steady wins the race!  Good news is, the team won a ginormous Monday night game against the Patriots.  And a tough game against the Dolphins.  So we might just need him to take his time and be ready for the...dare I say it...the playoffs?

Ben hooked up to his ice machine which compresses and ices at the same time

Panthers Beat the Falcons

Big win!  We beat the Falcons.  Now, they aren't doing very well this year, but still they are a good team and we beat them!  5-3!  Big test next weekend at San Fran.

We also spent the weekend we some great friends!  Makes us miss home even that much more, but makes it so sweet when we do get back!